By Bianca Blount – The problem may be all the necessary transaction logs were not restored. When restoring transaction logs, all logs between the last full back up or differential need to be restored in sequential order.
Author: SSWUG Research
Database future debated
By Paul Krill – SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Whether the future of databases is the traditional, relational and SQL model with XML technologies incorporated into it or a new XML-based model is a matter of debate, according to panelists during a session Tuesday at the Software Development Conference & Expo he
Database Wipeout Turns Into Unsolved Mystery
In making a hasty recovery after a SQL Server data loss, staffers may have overwritten critical evidence.
Oracle Comes Out of the ASP Closet
By Allen Bernard – It’s taken some time, but Larry Ellison’s vision of software being delivered as a service is coming to fruition — all Oracle products are now available in ASP-enabled versions.
Time conversions
By jai Tanwar – Reports sometimes need the time to be represented in MM:SS format but in the database table it often must be stored in seconds. To convert from one format to the other, use the following function. Use this function with SQL queries like this:
Kicking out the Cuckoo
by Edd Dumbill – It is past time that the W3C called an end to its involvement in web services. Despite the name, web services have increasingly little to do with the Web as we know it, and those at the forefront of its development seem to have little fondness for the W3C or its technologies.
Tip: Converting Word documents into Simple Docbook XML
In previous tips, Khor Soon Hin showed you how to convert Rich Text Format (RTF) files into Simple DocBook (sdocbook) XML, and how RTF files with graphics can be converted into sdocbook as well. Now, some curious readers have inquired if they can do the same for Word documents — or even display tho
Casting the Dice with FXSL: Random Number Generation Functions in XSLT
By Dimitre Novatchev – In Dimitre's functional programming series, this article deals with generating natural random numbers using different designs in the implementation. The code of the implementation demonstrates the use of such powerful, functional programming design patterns as partial appl
Web Services Are Real
By John Edwards – Web services aren’t revolutionary, but their standards-based approach to integration and interoperability is something new. And some Oracle customers are already putting Web services to the test.
Oracle 9i (9.0.1) installation on Red Hat Linux 7.2
Installation of Oracle 9i server on Redhat 7.2 is the same as on Redhat 7.1, except for some really strange behaviour I experienced when the Database configuration assistant (dbca) was invoked, both as part of installation and later when I tried to invoke it manually. This combination is not certifi